ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) Review

👤by Matthew Hodgson Comments 📅17-06-20
Closer Look
The Republic of Gamers are well-known within the industry for their lovely aesthetics, with the B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) being absolutely no exception. The board sports a dark and stealthy style with some bright pink accents along the heatsinks. The motherboard conforms to the ATX standard.


Flanking the AM4 CPU socket is an ASUS DIGI+ Power Control VRM with 12+2 power phase for digital, clean power delivery to both the CPU and DRAM.
Ensuring heat can be dissipated quickly, there’s a large metal heatsink applied directly on top of each bank of VRM phases.


Plonked between the two VRM heatsinks are the CPU power delivery connections. ROG have decided to equip the board with an 8+4 arrangement, giving the option of turning the juice up to 11. These connections also sport something ASUS calls ProCool, this is designed to ensure a flush contact with the power cables for lower impedance and less heat build up.


Featuring OPTIMEM II, which aims to improve overclocking headroom and add stability through clever route-tracing and signal shielding, the B550-F Gaming (Wi-Fi) can house up to 128GB of DDR4 with support for frequencies up to 5100MHz.
You can also see a couple of CPU PWM 4-pin headers for the cooling option of your choice, and an RGB header next to that.


Moving along the right-edge of the board to the bottom, there are six 90° SATA connections.



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